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Junior Chimp
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« on: September 04, 2005, 03:51:32 PM » |
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Cleveland was a Gold Democrat.
He thus pissed off the Republicans by being a Democrat.
And he pissed off the Silverites by supporting Gold.
So the populists got the traditional Democratic support in these states...which, of course, got reabsorbed in 1896 with the Populist-Democrat fusion under Bryan (just look at the Nevada '96 results).
Bryan ended up retaking the West from the Populists...but lost the cities in the process. If I remember correctly, the largest city to vote for him was Troy, NY...
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